This land is our land: We're just thankful that Utah House Resolution 10, which tells Congress to quit creating federal wilderness areas in Utah without the unanimous support of the state's congressional delegation, is nonbinding. Built on the erroneous argument that Utahns should have more say over federal land here than other Americans who also own it, the resolution ignores the economic reality that ranching and energy extraction are yielding to tourism as Utah's primary economic engine. Wilderness-quality lands must be held in trust for future generations. We don't believe that we should entrust Utahns alone with that responsibility.

Home Sweet Home: With the snip of a ribbon, Salt Lake County Housing Authority officials took 84 homeless men and women off the street last week. Officials celebrated the opening of Grace Mary Manor, a $9 million apartment building for the chronically homeless at 57 W. Gregson Ave. in South Salt Lake. The facility, part of a laudable 10-year plan to reduce chronic homelessness in the state, comes on the heels of the highly successful Sunrise Metro apartments, a 100-unit complex for the homeless that opened in Salt Lake City a year ago. Residents receive help from on-site caseworkers to deal with problems that led to their homelessness, and pay a portion of any income as rent.

True that: The local effort to keep EnergySolutions Inc. from importing foreign nuclear waste to Utah is no longer a strictly grass-roots affair. U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, is the first political leader from the state with the good sense to speak out against the plan, but hopefully not the last. Matheson is urging federal regulators to reject EnergySolutions' request for a license to import low-level radioactive waste from Italy, correctly citing the shortage of domestic waste disposal facilities and the potential for the U.S. to become the world's dumping ground.